A lot of dead ends indeed. I though that @barche QML route was an interesting options.
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I feel like this is a missing element for a lot of julia applications and I want to kind of document my way through it as I try a few options and weigh pros/cons.
Would be great ! I think that the topic of building an application (with UI) has not been addressed very often. This is related to the question “is Julia a general purpose language ?”. Most attempts that I have seen are based on WebIO. My poorly-educated guess is that the micro-service architecture could be a nice option : let Julia deal with computations as a service and use QT or Web clients or something else deal with the GUI. It could also help to isolate the Julia computations if someone do not want to share its sources.